Asi (Hindi: असि) appears as a personification of the first weapon ever created according to Hindu epics. 'Asi' means 'sword'. A legend concerning Asi appears in the Shantiparva section of Mahabharata. In Rigvedic Sanskrit Asi is still used as a term for a kind of sacrificial dagger or knife. The common term for sword in Classical Sanskrit is khaḍga and khanda in Hindi.